"She's our daughter.
Conceived in our hearts and birthed out of faith. We will love her as our own, because she will be.
And so, we embark on this journey of finding her, of searching the world over, until we find her and bring her home to our hearts.
July 28, 2012...let the story begin."
I penned those words nearly 3 years ago, and our adoption story has taken more twists and turns than we ever thought possible. As it was once said, "My friends, adoption is redemption. It's costly, exhausting, expensive and outrageous. Buying back lives costs so much. When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him."
Buying back lives IS expensive, but it is worth it because HE is worth it and THEY are worth it and we will not stop until we have brought our child home...and even then, the real journey has only truly just begun.
Whether you're new to our story, or whether you've journeyed with us from day #1, you've probably heard us talk about the little girl we were in the process of adopting from Uganda. We were not matched with a specific child, only a general profile, but we loved her - whoever she was - fiercely and covered her with love and prayer as best as we knew how.
But as most of you know, the doors to adoption in Uganda seem to be closing for the foreseeable future, and so with much prayer and with hearts full of hope and anticipation, we are searching for a new international adoption program!
Daunting as the task may seem - to begin all over again and start a new international adoption from scratch - we knew from the beginning adoption is not for the faint of heart. Truer words could have never been spoken! Edgar and I are passionate about adoption, always have been and always will be. We are filled with so much hope and joy at the thought that God would choose us to partner with Him in redemption, in buying back a precious life and giving that little soul a hope and a future.
When we learned we were pregnant in early 2014, the Lord clearly told us to rest into parenthood and enjoy our son Samuel without investing energy into our adoption until Samuel was 6 months old. Now that our precious son has reached that milestone, we are bursting with excitement to begin our new adoption. What that means is we are all the way back at square one, researching and looking for a reputable agency with successful international programs. Please pray with us that over the coming weeks and months that we will land on a new program and be able to begin the process!
To kick things off, we are having an "Adoption Fundraiser Garage Sale" next Saturday, May 2nd! For anyone local, if you have items you would like to donate to our sale, we will gladly coordinate getting those from you. Even though we don't know exactly where we are adopting from yet, we decided to go ahead and have this garage sale earlier in the year and not wait until it's 1000F degrees outside. :-)
There's a line in a Bethel song that says "I've come to this place in my life where I'm full but I'm not satisfied." That's a great way to describe how we feel. Because we know our family isn't complete yet, in fact we're only just getting started, and we won't rest until we've brought home every child that belongs to us.
Conceived in our hearts and birthed out of faith. We will love her as our own, because she will be.
And so, we embark on this journey of finding her, of searching the world over, until we find her and bring her home to our hearts.
July 28, 2012...let the story begin."
I penned those words nearly 3 years ago, and our adoption story has taken more twists and turns than we ever thought possible. As it was once said, "My friends, adoption is redemption. It's costly, exhausting, expensive and outrageous. Buying back lives costs so much. When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him."
Buying back lives IS expensive, but it is worth it because HE is worth it and THEY are worth it and we will not stop until we have brought our child home...and even then, the real journey has only truly just begun.
Whether you're new to our story, or whether you've journeyed with us from day #1, you've probably heard us talk about the little girl we were in the process of adopting from Uganda. We were not matched with a specific child, only a general profile, but we loved her - whoever she was - fiercely and covered her with love and prayer as best as we knew how.
But as most of you know, the doors to adoption in Uganda seem to be closing for the foreseeable future, and so with much prayer and with hearts full of hope and anticipation, we are searching for a new international adoption program!
Daunting as the task may seem - to begin all over again and start a new international adoption from scratch - we knew from the beginning adoption is not for the faint of heart. Truer words could have never been spoken! Edgar and I are passionate about adoption, always have been and always will be. We are filled with so much hope and joy at the thought that God would choose us to partner with Him in redemption, in buying back a precious life and giving that little soul a hope and a future.
When we learned we were pregnant in early 2014, the Lord clearly told us to rest into parenthood and enjoy our son Samuel without investing energy into our adoption until Samuel was 6 months old. Now that our precious son has reached that milestone, we are bursting with excitement to begin our new adoption. What that means is we are all the way back at square one, researching and looking for a reputable agency with successful international programs. Please pray with us that over the coming weeks and months that we will land on a new program and be able to begin the process!
To kick things off, we are having an "Adoption Fundraiser Garage Sale" next Saturday, May 2nd! For anyone local, if you have items you would like to donate to our sale, we will gladly coordinate getting those from you. Even though we don't know exactly where we are adopting from yet, we decided to go ahead and have this garage sale earlier in the year and not wait until it's 1000F degrees outside. :-)
There's a line in a Bethel song that says "I've come to this place in my life where I'm full but I'm not satisfied." That's a great way to describe how we feel. Because we know our family isn't complete yet, in fact we're only just getting started, and we won't rest until we've brought home every child that belongs to us.
Friends, this is adoption.
Welcome to our journey as it continues...
